2021 Hawke's Bay club rugby

[Number 10]

Opening day is Good Friday, so the players can have a three-day weekend.

It has usually been the case in recent years to play on Good Friday in the Easter Weekend.

[Higgins]

You might not be able to get much info about HB club matches other than quotes from Team Managers about who played well but it is very pleasing to know we can still get comprehensive newspaper reports about Sheep Dog Trials. Only people form rural provinces can be aware of the importance and significance of that sport.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/hawkes-bay-dog-trialists-venture-out-of-the-region/UKZHNA6XFSZPKUW5IVUMWENVKY/

It might even deserve to have it's own thread!

[Magpie_in_aus]

@number-10 said in 2021 Hawke's Bay club rugby:

Hawke's Bay RU AGM tonight.

Profit of $713,579 declared for a 22nd consecutive profit. Reserves now at $2.4 million.

Emma Jensen was voted on to the Board.

11 Colts teams are entered for the 2021 club competition - the most since 2002.

2002....when I made my Tech Colts debut as a lanky underweight 15 year old.

[Higgins]

@magpie_in_aus You will be pleased to know that along with the 2020 Black & White Trophy we won for the best Club overall we also won the Pat Ryan Memorial Trophy for the Colts/Under 21 Grade. At this stage we are still (and have been since 2018) the NZ Club One Day Cricket Champions but have to put that title at stake this coming weekend I think. I am doing a rain dance in the hope that it might wash out the entire tournament thus enabling the Mighty Texans to retain the Title for yet another season!!!!!!!!

[Stargazer]

From Magpies Facebook:

This season we will be live streaming one game a week. Tomorrow's live-stream is CHB v MAC. This game kicks off at 3pm, so make sure to check out the live stream here on our Magpies Facebook page.

[Stockcar86]

@stargazer said in 2021 Hawke's Bay club rugby:

From the article below:

Tamatea

... have also recruited, well adding Magpies Lincoln McClutchie and Kianu Kereru-Symes ...

I am pretty sure that McClutchie was playing for Tamatea last year wasn't he, or did he leave Tamatea the year before, and is returning to them?

[kiwimatrix]

@stockcar86 No those 2 and Mason Kean all played for MAC last year and have all gone back to tamatea.

[Number 10]

@stargazer said in 2021 Hawke's Bay club rugby:

From Magpies Facebook:

This season we will be live streaming one game a week. Tomorrow's live-stream is CHB v MAC. This game kicks off at 3pm, so make sure to check out the live stream here on our Magpies Facebook page.

I'll be at the Hastings RS v Pirates game.

[Higgins]

Just confirming no B Retallick listed on the Central Hawkes Bay team sheet. Looks to be a reasonably sunny, if not a tad wind, down in Waipukurau today. But as I type that the sun disappears as MAC run onto the field, let the battles begin.
Would help if someone could post score updates from Anderson Park for me and magpie_in_aus thanks!

[Higgins]

Opps forgot to add the Link to the game https://www.facebook.com/hbmagpies as MAC in for the first try of the season after just a couple of minutes. The conversion from in front is a mere formality.

[Higgins]

@Magpie_in_aus And this is the Altherm Window Systems Texans lineup - looks to be plenty of old faces and doesn't appear to be too many retirements

1. Tim Farrell
2. Teremoana Joel
3. Perrin Manuel
4. Elijah Martin
5. Trent Boswell Wakefield
6. Corey McCaffrey
7. Amos Ruddick
8. Xavier McCorkindale
9. Sheridan Rangihuna
10. Tamati Samuels
11. Wade Moore
12. Ted Walters
13. Ben Lewis
14. Kyle Cornellissen
15. Leighton Shaw

[Stargazer]

MAGPIE WAA TO CAPTAIN TARADALE THIS SEASON

Hurricane Danny Toala will play at first five-eighth for Hastings today. His backline will miss the services of Magpies midfielder Neria Fomai who has a short-term contract with the Highlanders, Jayden Rihia who is in Australia and Antonio Mikaele-Tu'u who is out for the season with a ruptured Achilles.

Clive have secured the services of former key Havelock North players in halfback Trent Hape and winger Anzelo Tuitavuki.

So Neria Fomai was with the Blues and is now with the Highlanders. That explains why I saw him in a photo with Fakatava (in Dunedin) on instagram, yesterday.

[Stargazer]

I assume it's (close to) half time in most games. These are the scores; just a little typo in the first game :beaming_face_with_smiling_eyes:

[Higgins]

@stargazer I'm loving what I see from Anderson Park! The scores look a little behind as the live stream from Rugby Park has MAC leading 17 - 10 (from memory) at half time.

[Stargazer]

@higgins I thought you would!

[Higgins]

@stargazer On closer inspection of the more minor games I suspect at least one of the scores is incorrect. There is no way Pirates could possibly rack up 164 points in half a game of rugby unless their opponents have been reduced by red cards to about ten players. They would be thanking their lucky stars if they got that many points in an entire season!

[Higgins]

@stargazer Not so thrilled about the Town & Country (Town Division) grade result though. No doubt stockcar86 will be exactly the opposite on that one, still his mob did have home advantage.

Bit of a worry about Pirates and Havelock Prem Reserves defaulting, lets hope it is simply because so many of their players are out of town for the weekend. Having said that surely they could have used some of their Colts player to bolster those teams for the weekend?

[kiwimatrix]

The livestream was hard to watch,kept cutting out.Who was number 18 for MAC he is enormous, would have to be close to 140kgs,lol.

[Number 10]

Hastings RS beat Pirates 41-36.

There was some odd scoring patterns.

Pirates led 17-12. Hastings scored 26 unanswered points to lead 38-17, then 41-29. Pirates scored a converted try with two minutes left to close to 41-36.

From the restart they had to go from their own 22 to win and got to the Hastings ten-metre line where their maul was held up and the game finished.

Pouri Rakete-Stones played the whole game for Pirates apart from ten minutes in the bin. He was a bit unlucky - Hastings had a long movement on attack in the Pirates 22, there were about three or four advantages during it, just short of the line the ref awarded Hastings a penalty try and gave Rakete-Stones the card because he was the last transgressor.

Danny Toala played at first five for Hastings, played the first 50-55 minutes and came back on for the last three on the wing.

Mason Emerson played centre for Hastings and other Magpies in the Hastings team were Jacob Devery (started at 8 and finished at hooker), prop Jason Long subbed off with about five minutes left, and halfback Connor McLeod who went to first-five when Toala was subbed off.

[Stargazer]